This concrete arch bridge over the Whitemud River, near Arden in what is now the Municipality of Glenella-Lansdowne, was built in 1916 on a design by engineer M. A. Lyons, at a cost of $9,499, the first of its kind to be constructed in Manitoba. After it was bypassed by a realignment of Highway 352 in the early 1990s, the bridge was abandoned and demolished around 2008.

Concrete arch bridge (1917)Source: Report of the Good Roads Board for the Fiscal Year Ending November 20th 1918, Department of Public Works, Province of Manitoba. [Manitoba Legislative Library]

The former concrete arch bridge (October 2007)Source: John Dietz

Closeup view of the former concrete arch bridge (October 2007)Source: John Dietz

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